Cover Reveal And Giveaway: The Star Child - Stephanie Keyes

The world is about to be cloaked in darkness.

Only one can stop the night.

Kellen St. James has spent his entire life being overlooked as an unwanted, ordinary, slightly geeky kid. That is until a beautiful girl, one who has haunted his dreams for the past eleven years of his life, shows up spinning tales of a prophecy. Not just any old prophecy either, but one in which Kellen plays a key role.

Suddenly, Kellen finds himself on the run through a Celtic underworld of faeries and demons, angels and gods, not to mention a really ticked off pack of hellhounds, all in order to save the world from darkness. But will they make it in time?

Release Date - 21st September 2012

Publisher - Inkspell Publishing

About The Author:

Stephanie Keyes was born in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania and has worked for the past twelve years as a corporate educator and curriculum designer in the Telecommunications industry. She holds a Master's degree in Education with a specialization in Instructional Technology from Duquesne University and a B.S. in Management Information Systems from Robert Morris University. She is a classically trained clarinetist, but also plays the saxophone and sings. When she's not writing, she is a wife to a wonderfully supportive husband and mother to two little boys whom she cites as her inspiration for all things writing. The Star Child is Mrs. Keyes' debut novel.

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Cover Reveal: Doomed - Tracy Deebs

Doomed

by Tracy Deebs

Beat the Game, Save the World.
One Stuxnet type worm,
One Greek-themed MMO,
One real world scavenger hunt,
Three teenagers on the run,
And a ten-day countdown to total nuclear annihilation.

Pandora’s Box isn’t just a myth anymore …

When seventeen-year-old Pandora Walker opens an email attachment, she uploads the most frightening worm ever invented—and in doing so, brings about total technological Armageddon. Everything from the internet to communications to utilities collapses and suddenly Pandora finds herself on the run from Homeland Security, the FBI and every police department in the country, all of whom blame her for the technological wasteland sweeping across the U.S.. With the help of stepbrothers Eli and Theo, her neighbors and the two hottest guys in school-- plus codes encrypted in a world famous MMO-- she sets out on a real life scavenger hunt that only she can solve. A scavenger hunt that pits her against one of the most brilliant men in the world—the maker of the Pandora worm. Her father. Only by unraveling the clues left by him in the MMO, and in real-world places around the U.S., can they hope to beat the clock ticking the days off until the entire planet is Doomed.

Expected publication: January 8th 2013

In My Mailbox (36).

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Review.

A Want So Wicked (A Need So Beautiful #2) - Suzanne Young (Harper Collins Australia)
Survive - Alex Morel (Hardie Grant Australia)
Wicked Nights (Angels Of The Dark #1) - Gena Showalter (Harlequin Teen Australia)
Blood Storm (Lharmell #2) - Rhiannon Hart (Random House Australia)
Throne Of Glass (Throne Of Glass #1) - Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Australia)

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One Moment - Kristina McBride
Dark Destiny (Dark Mirror #3) - M.J Putney
52 Reasons To Hate My Father - Jessica Brody
Chosen Ones (The Lost Souls #1) - Tiffany Truitt

(ARC) Book Review (110). Everything Left Unsaid - Jessica Davidson

Everything Left Unsaid

by Jessica Davidson

Publication: 1st August 2012

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia

Pages: 305

Genre: Contemporary

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

"I wait for him, the cold seeping through my clothes, until it finally dawns on me that he's not coming back. And I wonder why he chose her instead of me? Why he went looking for her when I was right there."


Tai and Juliet have been best friends forever – since they met at kindy and decided to get married in first grade.

They understand each other in the way that only best friends can.

They love music, beach walks, energy drinks and, they are slowly discovering, each other.

As they dream of adventures beyond the HSC – a future free of homework, curfews and parents, a life together – their plans are suddenly and dramatically derailed.

For Tai is sick.

And not everything you wish for can come true.

A poignant story of first love, hope, grief, family, and the twistedness of life.

My Thoughts.

Where have you been hiding Jessica Davidson? This is such an emotionally draining book, after finishing it I couldn't stop thinking about it, I suggest a box full of tissues and a place where you can bawl your eyes out alone!

Which to me is the sign of a fantastic storyteller.

This is the most depressingly, wonderful book I've ever read, it sent me on a roller-coaster of emotions, it was heartbreaking and sent me barreling towards the inevitable ending that you knew would happen but at the same time hoped it wouldn't.

The last half of this book had me in tears and I had to escape to the solitude of my room, because this book is so overwhelming, I just wanted to sit and reflect on the brilliance of this novel, I felt like I'd lost a friend once it was over.

Juliet and Tai have been best friends since the first day of Kindergarten, now that they are both in Year Twelve they have finally admitted their feelings for each other, and after finally becoming a couple Tai finds out that he is dying from a brain tumor with only a year left to live.

Told in alternating perspectives we get both sides, Tai having to deal with the fact that he won't get to do all of the things that he dreamed of doing after high school and Juliet who's faced with reality that she will lose her boyfriend and best friend.

And with Tai faced with the decisions on whether he wants to die at home or a hospital, or if he wants to be buried or cremated just made this so hard to get through without a steady stream of tears running down my face, and having him sit by and watch everybody else's lives carrying on around him knowing he won't get to do any of those things is heartbreaking.

Amidst all the tragedy is a fantastic book which everybody needs to read, this is real life, it's not going to end with a couple looking forward to their future together, but instead how a girl is having to carry on without the person she expected to spend her life with.

One of my favourite contemporary's of all time, I'm so glad I read this book.

I give this 5/5.

A Big Thanks To Pan Macmillan Australia.

Feature And Follow Friday (34).

Q: What drove you to start book blogging in the first place?

I used to visit all these different blogs and one day I thought you know what, I love reading why don't I start a blog of my own. Another reason was that no-one else in my house really reads so I don't really have anybody to talk to when I find something really exciting that's book related.

Blog Tour: Persephone (Daughters Of Zeus) - Kaitlin Bevis And Book Review (109).

I'm extremely excited to be today's stop on the Persephone Book Tour.

As part of the tour I will be reviewing this fantastic book.

Persephone

by Kaitlin Bevis

Expected publication: July 6th 2012 by Musa Publishing

There are worse things than death, worse people too


The “talk” was bad enough, but how many teens get told that they’re a goddess? When her mom tells her, Persephone is sure her mother has lost her mind. It isn’t until Boreas, the god of winter, tries to abduct her that she realizes her mother was telling the truth. Hades rescues her, and in order to safely bring Persephone to the Underworld he marks her as his bride. But Boreas will stop at nothing to get Persephone. Despite her growing feelings for Hades, Persephone wants to return to the living realm. Persephone must find a way to defeat Boreas and reclaim her life.

My Thoughts.

I cannot put into words how much I loved this book, I never wanted it to end, I loved everything about it, I struggled to put it down, what Bevis has written is one of my favourite books of the year!

I've never read a book before based around the Hades and Persephone myth and I couldn't have picked a better book to start me off, I will definitely be seeking out the sequel to this, I had an inkling when I was getting towards the end that this is part of a series but a little part of me was hoping it wasn't because I don't have the patience to wait to see what will happen next.

"Persephone..."

And just that one word started my journey into this fantastic world that Bevis has created, Persephone is sixteen still at school and works with her Mother in her flower shop, lately Persephone has had the feeling that someone is watching her.

I could feel someone watching me. Eyes boring a hole in the back of my neck, crawling over my skin. The hushed sounds of my classmates did little to make me feel safe.

One afternoon while working in the shop a man  comes in saying strange things and after grabbing her and scaring her he runs off, she tells her Mother and it's then that her Mum informs her that Persephone is a goddess as she also is, her Mum is in fact Demeter and her father is Zeus, thinking that her Mum is crazy she drives to her best friend Melissa's house where she confirms the story and tells her that she was born to be Persephone's priestess, upset she drives off to her favourite park and it's there she's attacked by somebody with the ability to harness ice and traps her until she is saved by four people on horseback, and finds that the guy who is helping her is in fact Hades.

Hades? I struggled harder against the heaviness of my eyes. The Hades? Lord of the Underworld, Hades?

After the stranger kisses her she wakes up in the Underworld, where she finds Hades in a conversation with her Mother in a hologram.

'You're in the Underworld." Mom's voice was gentle. "But you're not dead. Hades has made it possible for you to travel between planes"

"When I breathed my essence into you - It also marked you as my bride."

And so Persephone finds herself married to Hades and also Queen of the Underworld, and so to keep her safe from Boreas (the god that tried to kill her) she is to stay in the Underworld until the spring equinox when it will be safe for her to venture into the world above.
I loved the interaction between Persephone and Hades, I was just cheering them on until they'd both admit their feelings for one another.

"So..." I turned to Moirae, who glared daggers at me, and quickly turned back to Hades. "Uh, what did you today?' He looked surprised by the question. "It's barely been an hour since I last saw you." "It's called small talk," I snapped. "You should try it some time."

I can't count the amount of times I laughed throughout some of the dialogue in this book, most of the funniest dialogue was saved for Persephone and Hades which I loved and was perfect for their characters and their love/hate relationship.

"You look nice tonight." Surprise flitted across Hades' face. "Thank you. You look lovely as well." "I always kind of figured you'd be ugly." 

I could go on and on adding quotes but I want everyone to experience this superb story and writing themselves.

 Everyone needs to check this book out, I can't rave enough about it, Bevis is definitely a new talent to keep an eye out for,

I give this 5/5.

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